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Disclaimer: I hate to be picky but if you're using names like "Prince Wudhaihi Qaws Quzah al-Muharriq" PLEASE describe me as the original person who created a concept/idea behind this name. I will not be picky for Chase Devineaux OCs or Ivy OCs since people have been reinventing them but if it's something specific to my Carmen AU please do cite me. If you see someone using my lore or names reblog them to me or something. Again: this is not to stifle creativity since I see a lot of good Carmen Sandiego OCs and they are cool I am putting this for people for other fandoms or creators in the future.

Ok so I've been thinking and decided that if I put off this lore for too long people will not understand the full context of my AU which is why I'm posting it now. There will be some confusing details that I will organize, and I intend to post a story on AO3 soon after much preparation.

I will be making significant changes to my AU so really this is a revised version of WOEICS lore (which means no Suhara, I'm sry but Suhara doesn't have enough lore for me so I will be recycling his lore for Yukichi). My lore is canon-adjacent to WOEICS basically.

One more thing: the WOEICS series is in the 90s where aired episodes were not in order so back then more episodic adventures was acceptable like BTAS and other 90s cartoons. In the modern streaming service there is a shift towards more character-driven episodes in episodic adventures so I will be treating my AU in the writing.

Introduction:

Prologue and Carmen herself

Yukichi Fukuzawa (Carmen's Stepdad/Replacement for Suhara)

Name Etymology behind Carmesí Santiago–Granada

C.H.I.E.F Robot (Computerized Holographic Imaging Educational Facilitator) and Weapon for Carmen in field missions/v.i.l.e

The Inspector (Chase Devineaux) (the old guy from WOEICS, NOT Chase's father)

ACME Point NEMO HQ lore origin

Pilot episode (summary)

Player=C.H.I.E.F? w.i.p

Main Background Characters (A.C.M.E):

Chase Cappello Devineaux

Chase's Weapon and 'Huntsman' training

Zachary Daniel Monaghan and Ivy Monaghan (nephew and niece of Chase C. Devineaux)

Julia Argent

Lamilla 'Milla' Feuilleton

Milla's Weapon and fighting ability

Prince Wudhaihi Qaws Quzah al-Muharriq (وضيحي قوس قزح المحرّق)

Johanna Yannick Sanitäter

Devin Dale

Francis Poverello

Other A.C.M.E from WOEICS 1994-1999

[A.C.M.E AU characters/agents from other continents, W.I.P]

V.I.L.E Characters Updated (A.C.M.E double agents)

Side Characters: V.I.L.E

Leader: Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom of team C.A.R.M.E.N

Cinder Fall

Adam Taurus

Raven Branwen

Roman Torchwick=Chūya Nakahara Port Mafia (sounds like a shitpost but it's not; I don't support BSD soudoku I'm sry; I also don't ship fr)

Mercury Black = Mance Bracknell

Melanie and Miltiades Malachite

Emerald Sustrai=Trijita Marakahima

Neo Politan=Yukiko Makioka

Game Elements (Important)

HOI4-inspired Civic Simulator Mechanics (UN Meeting/Morning)

Investigation Time (Prelude to Class Trial)

Class Trial: AP World History DBQ Bullet Refutation rules

Class Trial Bosses: "Remnants of Despair"

Papers Please (mostly)/Shutter Story Nighttime CCTV stealth game

V.I.L.E Diorama Tycoon Simulator - Nighttime

Visual Novel Mechanics and UI

Important Organizations

Source: Maps International. (2026). South-Up World Map Projection [Cartographic Data]. Maps International. © 2026 Maps International - All Rights Reserved. Retrieved from https://www.mapsinternational.com/about-us.

It all started: Red Vs. Blue lore (for the WF factions)

Atlas is Soviet ZATO/Russia

Mantle exists in pre-Krasnoyarsk

Vacuo is located in Middle East and Africa

Mistral is located in Hong Kong and SE Asia (where original White Fang originated was in Odaiba, Japan).

Vale is located in North America and Western Europe

Vale: Nagoriyuki (part of WF) and Shuri - Aligned with "Vermillion Bird of the South" in Wakanda

Beacon Academy is located in Saint Mont-Michel's place in Normandy, France where the REAL Saint Mont-Michel's castle (alt. history of the Hundred Years War in South America's Guiana continents) is located in French Guiana.

W.I.P for the other huntsman academies in other regions.

Side Characters: Anti-Heroes, not really seen in AU but present

Team RWBY: Ruby Rose, Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladona, Weiss Schnee

Team JNPR: Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyhrra Nikos, Lie Ren

That's about it...I will post this and keep updating it (also b/c I need to sleep) so there's that.

If Roman were ever adapted into a Lies of P side story, I would hope the performance direction embraces that theatrical identity. My personal fan casting would be Jaafar Jackson—or another actor capable of delivering fast-paced, charismatic dialogue with a playful, stage-like presence.

Likewise, I think Roman's optional questline would benefit from drawing inspiration from the absurdist humor of Monty Python while combining it with the unsettling psychological atmosphere (and setting inspiration?) of We Happy Few. That blend of dark comedy, theatrical performance, and social decay feels like a natural fit for both Roman Torchwick and the world of Krat.

Here is a checklist for my proposal (if you consider my words important you can use the hashtag '#pinocchiowick' on Tumblr to spread the word):

I. Roman Torchwick Should Be Written as a Gay Character.

II. Roman Torchwick Should Survive.

III. Roman Torchwick Should Remain an Independent Villain.

IV. Roman's Emotional Loyalty Should Belong to P Alone (not Carlo).

V. Any Official Adaptation Should Acknowledge Monty Oum's Work RWBY.

VI. Roman Torchwick Should Be an Optional Side Quest (C-Plot).

All credit of this photo goes to Flyremoon check out their commissions, (https://flyremoon.weebly.com/commissions.html).

Hand signature for Chase Cappello Devineaux is made by "Graphic Tech/Digital Ink and Print: Michele Rocksberg".

I haven't seen really an abundance of WOEICS for an official prequel. That isn't to say that the fandom can't make one but it is suprisingly low, but maybe that's what happens when the cs 2019 fandom becomes crowded with younger and more of a popular following. This isn't bad but I would really like to see an expansive WOEICS AU and I'm not just talking about generic crossovers.

The best WOEICS AU fits I've Seen are from aptashi and Green Lion and other WOEICS fits I've seen on fanfiction.net from @heartwoeics, @disfordevineaux, and @carmensandiego-dreams-collection.

I would like to see some WOEICS fics again but a prequel if anyone can try (not I'm not just talking about my AU lore).

Sometimes it can be alienating when I don't see much from this fandom but I believe there is a geographical aspect in the games that have a lot of potential...and NO I'm not talking about the 40th year anniversary Playstation CS 2019 game since I don't believe that's not a true CS homage.

So, please, if there's any 2019 CS fans or really any fandom that is willing to do justice on WOEICS please do so. I hate to see this fandom of the 90s era get dwindled down over time by simple plot lines or surface-level worldbuilding.

Note: this will include the backstory + name entomology of Carmesí. This is a post related to my Masterpost ACME Point NEMO HQ (WOEICS prequel fic).

Ok so this yellow sash is a reference to the WOEICS Carmen yellow sash she always has b/c it was a yellow scarf of sorts. It's really hard to tell but I thinks the 1994-1999 version had a yellow-apricot scarf. For this AU I have turned the yellow sash into a belt sash so that it hangs on her backside. I gave her black leggings with a light wisteria gradient on her ankles and the red heels.

I added some additional quilted side pockets that are naturally red and invisible to the naked eye. The back of her coat should have been wider but I couldn't fit in the quilted pockets so just imagine that the slits between the hips of the trenchcoat are smaller.

I know that I put Cinder Falls emblem here but technically in team C.A.R.M.E.N they can share an emblem if Carmen doesn't have an emblem (also I am planning on giving Cinder her own emblem but for now she shares the same one with Carmen; also helps add some mystery in my AU):

Carmen's red heels emblem here a reference to Dorothy's shoes from the WOEICS episode where Carmen stole her childhood stuff to prevent them from being destroyed by natural disasters (like the building she towed her old orphanage). Wizard of Oz was her favorite childhood story so I am putting the reference there.

I should add that she does fight with her C.H.I.E.F robot in V.I.L.E field missions where she can use the robot to fight against A.C.M.E agents and bots.

This C.H.I.E.F does have a personality like the Rodger Bumpass VA C.H.I.E.F in the 90s but is set before his holographic self. You might see his holographic head like the 90s versions time to time but those are when the C.H.I.E.F robot is destroyed and he is in repair by Zach.

Not related but Zach created the robot C.H.I.E.F for Carmen and A.C.M.E since he's a technician expert in her team at A.C.M.E (he doesn't know that his robot is being used for V.I.L.E as Carmen can bypass him as a sleeper agent). Here are a few examples of the C.H.I.E.F fighting when he's deactivated from his canon AI-based personality:

Carmen can sit on the shoulder of the C.H.I.E.F robot while the C.H.I.E.F can kick with a ridiculous amount of force.

Carmen can detach one of the gauntlet's by the C.H.I.E.F which can be used as either a rope to lasso the robot hand into the robot-bots/A.C.M.E agents, or use the gauntlet itself as a sort of machine-gun (against robots only!).

If you're wondering why Carmen uses force during these moments this is only after some time from the pilot episode where she was trained against her will by V.I.L.E agents to fight so she uses non-lethal force or other gadgets if she can (aka the ones in the show you see in WOEICS like the many different types of hovercrafts she uses).

The C.H.I.E.F mostly serves as a judge to the court trial A.C.M.E system which serves as mediator...although he is usually not that helpful and serves to make light jokes and be the emotional conscience and core of Carmen (b/c he is Carmen's friend even in V.I.L.E missions). Chase hates the C.H.I.E.F but allows him to go on A.C.M.E missions b/c Carmen allowed it and he can't break his beloved nephew Zach's prized robot.

Her A.C.M.E Detective outfit

Name Entomology

Carmesí

This Spanish word means "Crimson" whose color is describes as a dark red with a deep blue/purple undertone. I had chosen this name instead of "Carmín" b/c that is the Spanish word for "Carmine" which a deeper purplish-red. Crimson is a color that is a cool blue-purple tone so I decided since Carmen's eyes are light blue.

Santiago

This is actually a last name I got inspired by the old fan-made 1990 game "Where in Hell is Carmen Santiago?" and I loved the last name so much so I decided to incorporate it into my AU name.

"Santiago" is similar to "Sandiego" but is a reference to Camino of Santiago: Camino de Santiago translates to "The Way of Saint James." It refers to a vast network of ancient pilgrimage routes across Europe that all converge at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle Saint James the Great are buried.

Santiago is also another word for St. James; in Dante's Comedy where St. James, the Apostle, in Paradiso (Paradise), the third and final book of Dante's Divine Comedy. Soon, the light of St. James appears and joins St. Peter. Beatrice asks St. James to examine Dante on Hope. After successfully answering the Apostle’s questions a third brilliant light emerges to join Sts. Peter and James.

Sandiego doesn't sound right to me as I've heard the closest the games have given Carmen a real name is "Carmen Isabella Sandiego" which I think sounds incorrect as a "Spanish" name and is rlly boring. IDK if there's another name in the fanbase on Tumblr for Carmen but I haven't seen it (yes, I've seen Carmen named after Carlotta Valdez but it doesn't fit Carmen's red color and idc about cs 2019).

Santiago is also the last name of my revised Carmen the opera that my AU Carmen watches with her stepdad.

Granada

Granada refers to the gem in Spanish "Granate" as the word is used interchangeably because the gems Garnet resemble the red color inside a pomegranate. The emblem of the historic Spanish city Granada is the ‘pomme de Granada’ - pomegranate, cultivated by the city’s C8th Moorish invaders who named their hilly city Ġarnāṭah. Anyone who has cut open a pomegranate is closer to the origin of garnet’s fanciful name. The fruit bursts with lush, chunky, glossy, ruddy seeds, and it’s these that gave us a name for the gem.

Early Life

Carmen was adopted by Yukichi Fukuzawa, who concealed the circumstances surrounding her biological family. For most of her childhood, Carmen believed herself to be an orphan the lingering remnants of her identity was being able to pronounce her name ‘Carmesí Santiago–Granada’.

Carmen Sandiego was raised at Corona, California after being adopted by Yukichi Fukuzawa, rather than the Golden Gate Girls School of the original continuity. For most of her childhood, Carmen believed herself to be an orphan the lingering remnants of her identity was being able to pronounce her name ‘Carmesí Santiago–Granada’.

As a child, Carmen displayed extraordinary intelligence, curiosity, and deductive ability, eventually attending Coronita Elementary School before transferring to Santiago High School.

As a teenager, Carmen attended college with the goal of becoming a nurse and enrolled in a nursing program. To support herself, she worked night shifts at a small diner while living on a limited budget. At this stage of her life she was in debt in college tuition, academically overwhelmed, working long shifts, surviving largely on microwavable food and her future job looking bleak having drained her stepdad’s patience and charitable financial options. After The Tulpar Incident she changed her majors and transferred continuing her education at the University of California, Riverside, where she resided in dormitory accommodations located within the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa.

Following graduation, Carmen established herself as a private investigator and operated an independent detective office affiliated with the San Francisco Police Department. During this period she worked closely with the Inspector, a former A.C.M.E. agent who had become a senior figure within the SFPD and whose career would later be referenced in the 1985 flashback events mentioned by the C.H.I.E.F. robot. Carmen's early detective work earned her a reputation as a prodigy capable of solving cases far beyond her years, attracting the attention of the secretive international organization A.C.M.E., which ultimately recruited her into its ranks.

Her upbringing in Corona intentionally parallels that of Chase C. Devineaux, who originated from the Kingdom of Corona in French Guiana, creating a thematic connection between the two characters long before their lives became intertwined through the events of the Point NEMO timeline.

Although she was raised with Japanese language and culture, she struggled with questions regarding her Latina identity and heritage. This uncertainty would later become one of the defining themes of her life.

The Tulpar Incident

At age eighteen Carmen became involved in the crossfire of a corporate coverup when she was a nurse-at-training working part time as a diner waitress. The diner where she worked had unknowingly been built above the wreckage of the Tulpar, a crashed Pony Express space freighter connected to the Yamagata Corporation. 

*Note: Yes, this is Aqua from KH but I am terrible at drawing; here's my shitty attempt at making younger 18 yr old Carmen btw. All credit from the original art goes to KH artists obviously.*

At the same time, a young Chuuya Nakahara arrived in San Francisco on behalf of the Port Mafia to investigate the corporation's activities. Initially visiting the diner only for food, Chuuya became acquainted with Carmen and gradually developed feelings.

Over several nights the two discussed their shared cultural pastimes, Japanese history, family, career aspirations and personal responsibility. Their friendship became one of the most important events in both of their lives.

Relationship with Chuuya/Roman

During the Tulpar investigation, Carmen confided in Chuuya regarding her uncertainty about nursing school, her financial struggles, and her fear of disappointing her adoptive father.

Unknown to Carmen, Chuuya had discovered information suggesting a connection between her and the Tulpar's deceased nurse, Anya. Chuuya chose not to reveal this information.

Following a confrontation involving Carmen's employer and the Tulpar investigation, Chuuya encouraged Carmen to determine her future according to her own desires rather than the expectations of others. This advice unintentionally became one of the defining influences on Carmen's later life.

Carmen did have a tendency to develop mutual relationships as she did with Chase and eventually in 1994 with Zach snd Ivy so when she first met Roman again she tried to pry his emotions into revealing how V.I.L.E recruited people like Carmen, Roman saw through this act and decided to that if she was going toward transparency and goodness he would shatter her spirit. Thus begins the arc of Roman treating Carmen lesser than a henchwoman or mentor Carmen could learn from as a thief and more into a role he could abuse for power. Carmen never intended for Roman to turn into the side of A.C.M.E as she knew even Chuuya was entrenched in the work of criminal networks that came in the shape of present Roman; still, she had hoped that he would provide leniency into her operations since he despised Maelstrom as much as she did.

Career Change

Although originally pursuing nursing, Carmen eventually began reconsidering her future. Inspired by her experiences and her desire to uncover the truth behind larger conspiracies, she gradually moved toward investigative work. She had started taking an interest in Fukuzawa's work and lifestyle inheriting his worldview:

"Fukuzawa's views on foreign policy evolved from idealism to a pragmatic acceptance of Social Darwinism, arguing that military strength was essential for national survival. In his influential 1885 editorial "Datsu-A Ron" ("Leaving Asia"), he advocated for Japan to align itself with the "civilized" nations of the West and distance itself from its "hopelessly backward" Asian neighbors. He became a strong supporter of the First Sino-Japanese War. Fukuzawa's legacy is immense but complex; he is revered for his foundational contributions to Japan's modernization, education, and the promotion of individual liberty, while his later embrace of nationalism and imperialism remains a subject of debate." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi)

Carmen did not inherit ideas of imperialism as she believed that humanity had the best to offer even if it looked bleak; her stepdad insisted otherwise. She would later join ACME and become one of its most talented detectives. Ironically, the same qualities that made her an excellent investigator eventually pushed her toward becoming a thief which was her outlook that people can change even if it's incremental a belief that stifled much of her coworkers like Chase when she went to far extremes in her job, although Chase has never suspect she was "Carmen Sandiego" as he always knew her as "Carmesí".

ACME Career

As an ACME detective stationed at Point Nemo, Carmen became known for solving cold cases, investigating V.I.L.E, participating in international operations, conducting geopolitical investigations and maintaining diplomatic relations on behalf of ACME with Chase Cappello Devineaux.

Despite her success Carmen increasingly discovered evidence suggesting that ACME and V.I.L.E. were more interconnected than either organization publicly admitted. Decidedly done with keeping secrets she realized her way of exposing the truth was by being an undercover V.I.L.E operative; it later turned out to be a coping mechanism once she betrayed her own intentions as an A.C.M.E agent as she became immersed in the conspiracy.

She believes that her actions are necessary to protect Ivy, Zack, Chase, Julia, her fellow ACME agents and the stability of world history itself This transforms her into an anti-villain rather than a traditional anti-hero.

Personality

Carmen is characterized by operational intelligence, exhaustion-induced determination, emotional restraint, strong curiosity, loyalty to friends and coworkers and a tendency to overwork herself like her mother Anya. She often appears calm even during crises and frequently prioritizes practical concerns over emotional ones. One recurring trait is her tendency to continue functioning under immense stress long after most people would have collapsed.

After discovering the hidden relationship between ACME and V.I.L.E., Carmen infiltrated V.I.L.E. as a sleeper agent. Her original intention was to dismantle the organization from within. Instead, she became increasingly involved in the world of international theft, political manipulation, and historical preservation. Unlike many members of Team C.A.R.M.E.N Carmen does not initially view herself as a villain.

Note: This is a post related to my Masterpost ACME Point NEMO HQ (WOEICS prequel fic).

"1985–1994" Prologue: 

1985: Carmen captures Maelstrom (The  Titanic incident). She is the "Star Agent." The world is simple: Good vs. Evil.

See “Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego” S4: https://carmensandiego.fandom.com/wiki/Retribution_Part_1:_Unsinkable_Carmen_Sandiego 

"Maelstrom was a former marine biologist from an unknown part of Europe (strongly hinted to be Norway), who turned to thievery during some point of his life. By the 1980s, he had an established criminal empire and reputation as a master criminal, which immediately had the attention of a then-minor ACME Detective Agency and its rising star agent, Carmen Sandiego. Together with her new robotic partner, the Computerized Holographic Imaging Educational Facilitator (C.H.I.E.F.), they managed to stop Maelstrom's plan of raising the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, a day before the actual discovery of the ship on September 1, 1985. Arrested, he promised to take revenge on Carmen, claiming they were not so different many times before."

1985–1994 (The 9-Year stay-cation): Carmen is promoted/exiled to Point Nemo. While the world thinks the Cold War is "ending," Carmen is at HQ watching the "Trash" (satellites, treaties, black ops data) get buried. She realizes that A.C.M.E. isn't winning; they are just hoarding the weapons of the next war.

How does she get said promotion?

Carmen is back in her office when she gets a letter of recommendation in her A.C.M.E office in San Francisco 1985 to come work at Point NEMO.

Carmen shows it to her Inspector asking if she could leave and the Inspector encourages her. There is some exposition and dialogue based on how she feels about her office before she packs up to move to the big prestigious A.C.M.E HQ where her friends are. 

Since Carmen captured Maelstrom she figures that helping more global threats will help prevent more dominant political powers like guerilla warfare or terrorists from invading. 

Even if her original premise about A.C.M.E’s intentions shows her original thinking we will soon see that her vision is not so clouded showing she doesn’t believe compromise exists when it comes to superfluous ideological promises.

1994 (The Breaking Point): This is Year 9 (she is now 26). The year Carmen decides that if History is "over," she’s going to be the one to restart the clock.

No this does *not* include time travel there’s a different method to restore past events in the Cold War (1985-1994) using the A.C.M.E supercomputer located in the bottom floor in Point NEMO that no A.C.M.E or V.I.L.E agent has knowledge of or is restricted from going there.

1994: 26 year old Carmen Sandiego is working in her personal office when she gets a message from her 90s laptop and sees V.I.L.E contacting her. This is the first time she has ever heard from this organization and was determined to complete her investigation on this mysterious organization within one year or less. She accepts the competition since her 9 years ‘solved’ cold cases results have never failed her so why now? 

She later discovers how V.I.L.E is connected to A.C.M.E. slowly.

Carmen later gets captured by V.I.L.E and the paradox is maintained because the alternative is catastrophic.

WWIII Trigger: If ACME is exposed as compromised, the 1920s Treaty is nullified as explained by Roman to her. Sovereign nations would descend on Point Nemo to seize its archives, inevitably triggering World War III if the treaty is compromised by Carmen (or really by anyone else). 

Carmen wants to maintain the reputation of A.C.M.E and to prevent the world from being nearly destroyed so she agrees to work with V.I.L.E as a thief in team C.A.R.M.E.N.

As we see later Roman has his own personal reasons to take down Malestrom’s plan so he works with Carmen who he knows is closest to capturing Malestrom from her records.

Carmen works with not only Roman but other team C.A.R.M.E.N members to investigate V.I.L.E to dismantle it. 

In this version I plan on making Carmen a war criminal (I know this sounds alarming but this is supposed to be thematic) Team C.A.R.M.E.N are terrorists but Carmen believes that she will have to make difficult decisions to protect Zack, Ivy, Chase, and Julia and the coworkers that have suffered under A.C.M.E even if it alienates her coworkers (friends?) knowing that she has been keeping secrets behind their back. The thing that separates team C.A.R.M.E.N and Carmen herself is that they are terrorists working for V.I.L.E and Carmen is an anti-villian (a villain with good intentions).

Defining the circumstances: Carmen does know about V.I.L.E but she can’t expose the identity of this organization to her coworkers in A.C.M.E or else she believes that V.I.L.E or other competing territorial factions in countries will come after her because she holds such important information. 

Her coworkers believe that they are fighting against a certain paramilitary force’s leaders which they mistake to be the White Fang and mixed up V.I.L.E and the White Fang. The A.C.M.E agents don’t know the existence of V.I.L.E.

Point Nemo is described as a "pressure cooker" of paranoia rather than a sanctuary.

Isolation: The facility is hidden even from other ACME agencies worldwide, serving as an archive for "Cold Cases" that are actually V.I.L.E. cover-ups.

Sleeper Reality: For agents like Carmen, the paradox creates a utopia-like scenario where the enemy is the person sitting in the next cubicle. She is forced to act as a triple agent, pretending to be a thief to draw out a ghost organization that is already legally protected by her own employer.

Date Clarification

10 Years: September 1, 1985 ⟶ September 1, 1995.

3 Months: September 1, 1995 ⟶ December 1, 1995.

7 Days: December 1, 1995 ⟶ December 8, 1995.

Carmen's story starts in the 9th year somewhere in 1994. To determine the date of the timeline Ivy starts as a Brown University graduate leaving to see her brother Zach she her term ends August 5, 1994.

A direct cross-country flight from Providence, Rhode Island to San Francisco takes approximately 6 to 6.5 hours.

However, because direct commercial flights out of Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport (PVD) to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) are historically rare, a standard mid-90s connecting flight with a single layover (usually in Chicago, Denver, or Detroit) takes a total travel time of 7.5 to 9 hours.

Because Ivy is flying westward from the Eastern Time Zone (EDT) to the Pacific Time Zone (PDT), she gains an additional 3 hours on the clock due to the time zone difference.

If Ivy leaves her Brown University dorm, arrives at PVD, and catches a flight that departs at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, she will touch down on the tarmac in San Francisco at approximately 3:00 PM Pacific Time on that exact same Friday, August 5, 1994.

She steps off the plane, meets up with Zach at the terminal, grabs her luggage, and is fully deployed in San Francisco before the sun even sets.

This is also the date of my pilot episode.

Legal Framework: The 1920s Treaty

The foundation of this paradox is a multilateral superpower treaty from the 1920s. This treaty established Point Nemo as a global neutrality zone, placing the autonomous structure outside the reach of sovereign laws. Under this agreement, ACME is granted a specific, limited mandate: its only permissible conflict is with V.I.L.E. b/c V.I.L.E’s role is that they keep interfering with world history.

A.C.M.E agents like Carmen are tasked with maintaining global security aka preventing v.i.l.e from stealing, tyranny, war crimes, preventing war before it happens and generally stopping team C.A.R.M.E.N (cinder fall/carmen sandiego, adam taurus, raven/roman, mercury/the malachite twins, emerald sustrai, and neo politan). 

In exchange for stopping v.i.l.e from ‘changing the events of world history’ a.c.m.e will get special seats in countries or negotiation for supporting its agents since point nemo is essentially a paid vacation for a.c.m.e agents to stay. 

Occasionally Carmen will have to attend as ambassador and other a.c.m.e agents into other countries who are affiliated with them to discuss how to support a.c.m.e and its citizens who decided to work at point nemo.

As long as agents wear the ACME badge, they possess diplomatic immunity, making the building itself—rather than the people within it—the entity protected by international law.

A.C.M.E agents live inside their offices if they are required to stay longer (depends on their profession and hierarchy in the organization). 

In the Point NEMO continuity, A.C.M.E. no longer stands for "Agency to Classify and Monitor Evildoers" but instead derives its identity from the political philosophy known as "The End of History"—the belief that humanity can eventually arrive at a final social and political order beyond major ideological conflict. Following decades of global warfare, A.C.M.E. establishes Point NEMO as a neutral sovereign intelligence state and engineers a closed historical loop spanning 1985–1994, trapping the world in a perpetual golden age where large-scale wars, political upheavals, and historical change can never fully occur. To preserve this artificial peace, conflict is redirected into controlled theatrical struggles between A.C.M.E. and its eternal rival V.I.L.E. 

V.I.L.E acronym does not stand for "Villian's International League of Evil" NOR does it stand for "Valuable Imports and Lavish Exports" but a different acronym connecting to their philosophy that acts as a starch refutation against what A.C.M.E stands for. V.I.L.E. is not merely a criminal organization but the philosophical antithesis of A.C.M.E., believing that history only progresses through struggle, revolution, instability, and violence.

While A.C.M.E. seeks to freeze humanity at the end of history, V.I.L.E. seeks to restart history by reintroducing genuine conflict and change. Unbeknownst to most participants, both organizations have become dependent upon one another: A.C.M.E. requires a manageable enemy to justify the existence of its peaceful world order, while V.I.L.E. requires A.C.M.E.'s artificial stability as the system it seeks to overthrow.

Together they perpetuate an endless cycle of simulated conflict designed to prevent real war, trapping heroes, villains, and entire generations inside a historical paradox where peace survives only because war is constantly being rehearsed.

The contradictory nature of ACME Point Nemo HQ, a facility that functions simultaneously as a shadow global arbiter of justice and a protected haven for the very corruption it claims to fight. 

This contradiction stems from their main goal which is to maintain the timeline of history or their philosophy “end of history” fitting for Carmen's possible prequel backstory to the “Where on Earth” series takes place after September 1, 1985. 

The story cuts to a post-timeskip after nine years (1994) where we see Carmen.

Since the Cold War ended later in 1991 A.C.M.E manufactured conflict with V.I.L.E by creating a fictionalized version of what happened after 1985 during the Cold War. As a result, the world is living in a fictional sci-fi reality of what happened after 1985 instead of the current 1985-1991 timeline.

Carmen is living in a fake reality of 1994 if the Cold War “stopped” and reached some conclusion (I didn’t think this far since I'm not an ‘Alternate History Hub’ person). After 1985 it’s just anime hijinks basically combined with alternate history. *Just b/c the events are manufactured doesn’t mean the characters are, they only exist in the limelight b/c of a.c.m.e/v.i.l.e’s interference*

Carmen is a sleeper agent of V.I.L.E when she receives a message on her office 80s old laptop where she accepted a challenge to hunt them down out of her own volition. 

She solved every cold case at her office for nine yrs. since 1985 and V.I.L.E hiding in plain sight upset her. She wants to investigate the organization to stop them from harming other people (she thinks they are a low-level threat like a small coup or thugs at first).  

The "paradox" emerges from the fact that V.I.L.E. and ACME are geographically and structurally the same entity.

Malignant Ideology: V.I.L.E. is not an external rival but a "malignant ideology" infecting the ACME architecture from within.

Infiltration: High-ranking V.I.L.E. leaders, such as Gunnar Maelstrom, operate as legitimate ACME personnel (e.g., marine biologists) to coordinate shadow networks while utilizing ACME resources.

Diplomatic Shield: Because of the 1920s treaty, the world's governments are effectively funding the organization that is destabilizing them.

How A.C.M.E was built (and why it’s connects to Cold War themes): 

The military-industrial complex (conditioning agents): A.C.M.E as an HQ was built around point NEMO which consisted of crashed satellites, they took the satellites and created basically an underwater bunker and top bunker for training facilities.  

“A neutral buoyancy pool or neutral buoyancy tank is a pool of water in which neutral buoyancy is used to train astronauts for extravehicular activity and the development of procedures. These pools began to be used in the 1960s and were initially just recreational swimming pools; dedicated facilities would later be built.”

In a.c.m.e, agents would be sent to these underwater locations to prepare them for any situation whether it was space or an underwater marine mission. V.I.L.E could attack from anywhere and they needed to be prepared for anything.

Using real NASA-style neutral buoyancy tanks for space/marine missions" makes A.C.M.E. feel like a military machine.

This military-industrial complex theme will be explored as more of the characters like Ivy (Chase’s niece) and Chase explore around A.C.M.E’s building. There is also General Ironwood who is the head of all military operations around A.C.M.E.

Note for the wiki: “I checked with @https-rediation, the Admin, to make sure that the WOEICS Carmen part of the disambiguation wiki was accurate. I rewatched the episodes and added 'the inspector' as he was a canon character that the WOEICS wiki-lore did not mention.”

also thanks to @heartwoeics for information to create the Carmen fandom wiki in the disambiguation page:

Carmen Sandiego is voiced by Rita Moreno in the Earth animated series, which presents a distinct interpretation of her backstory. Within this canon, Carmen is depicted as an orphan raised at the Golden Gate Girls' School in San Francisco before being taken in by the C.H.I.E.F at the A.C.M.E Detective Agency. As a teenager, she distinguished herself by solving more cases than any other agent. She later vanished for several years prior to re-emerging as a master thief. In Hot Ice S2E2, Carmen infiltrates A.C.M.E headquarters, remarking that she has been gone for 10 years, 3 months, and 7 days. Using her old keycard to bypass security, she announces her return directly to the C.H.I.E.F following this precise absence.

The WOEICS series does not establish a clearly defined timeline, though certain details can be inferred. As a teenage agent, Carmen ultimately captured Gunnar Maelstrom—her most significant case—around late August 1985, coinciding with her appearance at the University of Liverpool. Her birthday is identified as March 1 in 'Scavenger Hunt' (S2E4). During her early career at A.C.M.E, she worked alongside Suhara, a Japanese partner who departed the agency after her and is implied to be retired. While the series never explicitly states why Carmen left A.C.M.E, Suhara offers speculation in ‘Déjà Vu’ (S2E6).

The Inspector makes his only on-screen appearance in ‘The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego’ (Retribution Part I) (S4E3), where he is depicted as Carmen’s superior during her time as a teenage A.C.M.E agent. He enters her office following another failed attempt to apprehend Gunnar Maelstrom, remarking, "Maelstrom got away again, huh Carmen?” As Carmen outlines her suspicions regarding Maelstrom's theft of a seemingly insignificant Carpathia logbook, the Inspector responds with mild skepticism, contrasting her analytical intensity with a more traditional investigative outlook. Despite this, he demonstrates confidence in her abilities and introduces a major advancement from A.C.M.E headquarters: the Computerized Holographic Imaging Educational Facilitator (C.H.I.E.F), presented as Carmen’s new partner to “even the odds.” His dialogue and positioning imply administrative authority, later reinforced by C.H.I.E.F's acknowledgment that the Inspector previously led the agency before its transition to a more technologically mediated command structure. Visually, the Inspector is portrayed as a middle-aged man with grey hair, fair skin, and a broad build, dressed in a white shirt, red tie, blue trousers, and suspenders, reflecting a formal yet pragmatic professional demeanor.

In later seasons, Carmen’s characterization shifts, portraying her less as a traditional villainess and more as an anti-hero. She occasionally collaborates with the protagonists when facing more dangerous adversaries and is shown to adhere—at least in principle—to a personal rule of avoiding thefts that would cause harm to others, though this standard is not always consistently upheld outside this canon.

In the two-part finale, Carmen Sandiego sets out to steal a statue from millionaire Malcom Avalon, but the heist leads her to a portrait of a woman she believes may be her mother, based on a locket in her possession—raising the possibility that Avalon could be her father. He initially rejects this idea, unwilling to accept that his daughter could have become a thief and maintaining his belief that she died in a San Francisco hotel fire alongside her mother. Over the course of the episodes, however, he begins to reconsider this possibility.

Before any definitive truth can be confirmed, Malcom Avalon falls from a rooftop during a confrontation with former A.C.M.E agent Lee Jordan, resulting in selective amnesia regarding the events. In the aftermath, Carmen seeks out a hypnotist to recover her own memories of the fire. Through this, it is revealed that the locket cannot serve as proof of her identity, as she remembers only picking it up from the ground, without knowing whether it originally belonged to her or was simply found amidst the chaos. The finale concludes with Carmen reflecting on the uncertainty, stating, “But maybe there are just some things we aren't meant to know for sure.”

Carmen is unable to obtain any credible, conclusive evidence that Malcom Avalon is her father. As clarified in "Can You Ever Go Home Again?" (Part Two) (S4E8), the locket cannot be treated as proof, as Carmen ultimately recalls that she simply picked it up from the ground without any confirmed personal connection. While the finale places Carmen and Malcom Avalon in San Francisco at the time of the fire, this coincidence alone does not establish a familial relationship, and the series deliberately leaves the question unresolved.

In this sense, the episode’s title reflects a broader thematic conclusion: Carmen can never truly return “home.” Even beyond the ambiguity surrounding her possible biological family, Buenos Aires cannot be considered her sole point of origin. Over the course of her life, she has had multiple “homes,” including the Golden Gate Girls School and A.C.M.E. However, when Carmen revisits these places, both she and they have changed, reinforcing the idea that the past—and any singular notion of home—is ultimately irrecoverable.

Unlike most portrayals across the franchise, the Earth series does not explicitly state Carmen’s reason for leaving A.C.M.E, though Suhara offers speculation in ‘Déjà Vu’ (S2E6). Her resourcefulness is emphasized in ‘Hot Ice’ (S2E2), where she notes that, during her time as an A.C.M.E detective, she lacked the advanced technology later used by Zack and Ivy. This point is reinforced in ‘The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego’ (Retribution Part I) (S4E3), where a flashback illustrates the justification behind her methods, as well as in another episode in which she successfully hijacks the Orient Express using only conventional tools after being challenged to operate without high-tech assistance.

Carmen is also portrayed as having a degree of fondness for Zack and Ivy, treating their rivalry as an intellectual game and often acknowledging their successes, even regarding them as worthy opponents. Her capabilities as a thief are depicted as extraordinarily sophisticated, with feats including stealing the Mona Lisa’s smile, acquiring technology capable of removing musical talent, and even taking the entire beach of Kaimu Beach in Hawaii.

Despite her role as a thief, Carmen demonstrates moments of levity and restraint. In one instance, after evading every A.C.M.E Detective simultaneously, she leaves behind dolls of herself as a playful taunt, wishing them a Merry Christmas. Similarly, in 'Trick or Treat' (S4E2), Zack and Ivy discover that Carmen has instructed Sara Bellum to distribute candy to children, ensuring that her activities do not disrupt the holiday.

"The Chief went through a particularly dramatic series of redesigns. He starts out looking very 1984, then takes on a look that seems very Morpheus from The Matrix five years early."

Here is the link:

The idea of a surveillance-like system in A.C.M.E suggests that it could have been hinting at a dark dystopian-like system in the context of A.C.M.E agents and an idealized work ethic. This was my main inspiration for my AU which was this article among other things.

If you're wondering about my date and not "1984" George Orwell's novel here is the date. I realize you didn't ask for my AU information but in the subject of categorizing dates I thought it would be important to clarify:

I took "1985-1994" as a timeline from the episode "Retribution - The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego Pt. 1". I didn't get a chance to mention this so sorry if I didn't mention it in my pinned post. Here is a summary of where I got my inspiration from:

https://carmensandiego.fandom.com/wiki/Retribution_Part_1:_Unsinkable_Carmen_Sandiego 

"Maelstrom was a former marine biologist from an unknown part of Europe (strongly hinted to be Norway), who turned to thievery during some point of his life. By the 1980s, he had an established criminal empire and reputation as a master criminal, which immediately had the attention of a then-minor ACME Detective Agency and its rising star agent, Carmen Sandiego. Together with her new robotic partner, the Computerized Holographic Imaging Educational Facilitator (C.H.I.E.F.), they managed to stop Maelstrom's plan of raising the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, a day before the actual discovery of the ship on September 1, 1985. Arrested, he promised to take revenge on Carmen, claiming they were not so different many times before."

The C.H.I.E.F also mentions when he worked with Carmen, and I've deduced a timeline in my AU based on this. He mentions: "late August" which means late August 1985. This is not the start of Carmen working for A.C.M.E. as the date begins much later.

He also mentions certain the timeframe where Carmen captured Maelstrom after January 20, 1981, where Ronald Regan was president but before September 1, 1985, and way before "Out of Africa" which won best picture on March 24, 1986.

My AU timeline: September 1, 1985, is when Carmen got her employment letter (I don't think it's called a 'proof of employment letter' but it's a letter where A.C.M.E confirms that Carmen is qualified for hire) to come work for A.C.M.E at Point NEMO. The Inspector bid her farewell and she disappeared after that.

In the "Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?" episode "Hot Ice" (Season 2), Carmen Sandiego breaks into ACME headquarters, noting she has been gone for 10 years, 3 months, and 7 days. Carmen uses her old keycard to bypass ACME security, announcing her return to the Chief after her 10-year, 3-month, 7-day absence.

I am trying to make a 9-year loop like Carmen has been stuck in her office and out solving field agent work for 9 years in a desolate location basically. Carmen is living a Groundhog Day sequence where she feels a strange sense of deja vu. Point NEMO is the furthest location from land, so employees have to live inside their offices. The 1 year 3 months and 7 days is supposed to be special in the context of this AU of Carmen discovering the truth of why she stays mostly in her job at A.C.M.E.

To get to the exact date Carmen returns to A.C.M.E. HQ in Hot Ice (based on her 10-year, 3-month, and 7-day absence starting from September 1, 1985), here is the breakdown:

10 Years: September 1, 1985 ⟶ September 1, 1995.

3 Months: September 1, 1995 ⟶ December 1, 1995.

7 Days: December 1, 1995 ⟶ December 8, 1995.

I am starting my WOEICS prequel in after 9 years but her before 10-year, 3-month, and 7-day absence so the date would be September 1, 1994.

This is the description of the wiki:

As @carm3nmonoxide pointed out they were confused as to why Carmen was taken by The Chief. I just realized thanks to them that Carmen was not taken under the Chief's tutelage b/c in the S4 episode "Retribution - The Unsinkable Carmen Sandiego, Pt. 1" we don't know much about her backstory about who adopted her in Golden Gate Girls School and it could be Shadow-san/Suhara like in the CS19 show. I realize that I made the same mistake by copy-pasting the wiki and I should change it.

I think the person who wrote this wiki were confused in mixing the Inspector and the Chief...unless you assume that the Chief who took Carmen in was a literal robot which no I mean the C.H.I.E.F-bot was made in some A.C.M.E headquarters just recently during that time. I have a headcanon that the Chief did exist just in a different location if you consider my AU but if you don't consider my AU idk the Chief was just a high-ranking officer in the SFPD I guess OR A.C.M.E was located near the P.I. in San Francisco.

It is possible that A.C.M.E was located in San Francisco but as I said in my first post in Part 1 on Tumblr why would a global law enforcement agency in the WOEICS series that deals with advanced CPU and memory banks and advanced time travel be located in the U.S. in San Francisco, CA?

The Inspector has a different rank, "An 'Inspector' in detective work is typically a high-ranking, sworn police officer, not a private investigator (PI). They lead investigations, supervise detectives, and manage police teams. In some areas, such as the San Francisco Police Department, 'Inspector' is used as the title for a detective, while in others, it is a senior management rank."

Here is the actual Inspector as Carmen addresses him clearly, "It doesn't add up, Inspector." when discussing Malestrom's stolen artifacts:

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On another note, I do have a headcanon I will probably incorporate into my AU:

Requested by @carm3nmonoxide: Carmen Sandiego’s backstory after Golden Gate Girls (Suhara adopted her)

So @carm3nmonoxide reminded me that Suhara was Carmen’s adoptive parent and NOT Malcom Avalon, the reason I made this mistake was b/c at the time I wrote Part 2: Point NEMO AU Tumblr post I wrote so much I couldn’t think of a parent other than Malcom when I wrote that but @carm3nmonoxide reminded me so ty.

Suhara, the Inspector, and Liam Monaghan who at the time was not injured. Ivy's father was a Lieutenant in the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Crime Prevention Company and at the height of his career was tasked with directing the operations of SFPD SWAT (https://tecs.fandom.com/wiki/Ivy_Monaghan) I also give credit to the findcarmen.com wiki Admin(s) who made the TECS fandom wiki.

Young Carmen during that time worked around the P.I office where she was tinkering with Suhara’s study room or went to read in the P.I. agency’s library etc. Make up your own headcanon as to what she did here until she turned 17 yrs old. I would like to make a distinction early on…

P.I. vs. A.C.M.E.

🕵️‍♀️ A private investigator (P.I.) agency is:

Usually run by one person (especially in classic detective fiction)

Sometimes a small office with maybe a partner or assistant (C.H.I.E.F robot given by A.C.M.E as a gift to Carmen)

Privately owned, not government-funded

Takes individual cases (missing persons, theft, etc.)

Operates outside official law enforcement

👉 A P.I. setup ≠ a massive organization like A.C.M.E

🔎 WOEICS Carmen Timeline Theory (My Interpretation)

Carmen (at 17) was NOT originally part of A.C.M.E

Her early setup as a P.I. with a small, run-down office suggests:

Independent work

No government backing

No access to A.C.M.E resources

🏢 What this implies about A.C.M.E

A.C.M.E likely was NOT based in San Francisco at the time

The idea that A.C.M.E is a local agency or a CIA-like location based on the U.S. doesn’t hold up

Instead, A.C.M.E is:

A larger, distant organization

Possibly operating off-site / internationally

Not something a 17-year-old Carmen could just walk into

🌊 Point Nemo Fan-Theory (my WOEICS Prequel AU logic)

A.C.M.E being located at Point Nemo explains:

Why it feels detached from normal society

Why its authority is global, not local

Why agents operate across countries so easily

🤖 C.H.I.E.F Evidence

The robot C.H.I.E.F being highly advanced suggests:

Access to technology far beyond a normal agency

Centralized control system (not just a boss, but infrastructure)

The A.C.M.E logo on the screen implies:

The robot is directly tied to the organization’s core system

A.C.M.E is more technocratic than it appears

🧩 Conclusion

Carmen started as an independent P.I., not an agent

A.C.M.E is a separate, larger power structure

Its true base (Point Nemo in my AU) explains:

its reach

its tech

and its detachment from the real world

Also, yeah, the C.H.I.E.F might be wrong in that same episode when he said, "We, me and a famous ex-detective by the name of Carmen Sandiego...Yep. Back when she was one of us. Say it loud and say it proud, but just say it, ACME detectives!" but I don't think he was lying. -> This is based around my AU lore which is why I think the C.H.I.E.F is wrong, but you can think of this quote as correct also.

Spoilers for my AU: I think his memory got wiped but I don't want to spoil too much. Carmen Sandiego was a detective in that P.I. agency but she was recruited by A.C.M.E. and the P.I. agency office was in affiliation with the SFPD. Carmen also ran her own P.I. firm hence why she has her own office.

A.C.M.E the global law enforcement agency bribed Carmen by giving her a robot, the organization probably told the Inspector to lure in Carmen with a shiny gift. The Inspector does not know the organization personally since he works for the SFPD, so he was a poor victim but instigator for Carmen in all of this.

Edit: I changed my mind about the Inspector and A.C.M.E's relationship since I told @carm3nmonoxide that Suhara was a part of A.C.M.E not the P.I. Suhara/Shadow-san did work with the P.I. but as a spokesperson for A.C.M.E. This means Suhara was the one along with A.C.M.E who convinced the Inspector to bribe Carmen to work for the organization...this is similar to my Point NEMO Part 2 AU where Suhara told Chase a similar thing about how Chase needed to 'control' Carmen to be in the shape of Suhara's image.

As you can tell, Suhara hides his intentions behind Carmen which I am foreshadowing in the future where Carmen isn't angry but calmly tells Suhara about how reshaping her will not help overcome his past with his former pupils (this will make sense if you read Part 2 of what happened to Adam and Raven).

I've left a little for the past few months, and it feels like this account has been abandoned but I still post. I have been working on my Carmen AU and taking a break so sorry if I am not able to respond. Here is an A.C.M.E logo I have retraced. The globe was retraced but accurate to actual continents since the WOEICS series logo continents did not look like the globe's map.

Obviously, the continent in the original series looked like blobs of continents in the show so I took a photo online in google images to flatten and retrace the globe in the background. I just find it baffling that the CS19 show has the chance to use the old A.C.M.E logo and they didn't?? The old logo fits for a global law enforcement agency but oh well...

I also have a google doc but I am not sharing it until I have finished the lore fully. I am still not sharing the doc even if I finished it but my rough draft isn't completely obsolete.

The lore I posted in 2025 had some revisions since I last worked on it. There are also things I want to clarify in case ppl think I am taking inspiration from CS19 lore (I am not):

Malcom Avalon did not take Carmen's tuition or influence her life to go to A.C.M.E (I am for now saying that Carmen is an orphan).

Ivy and Zach have more lore partly taken from the TECS wiki (The Elusive Carmen Sandiego wiki) and their faces look identical to WOEICS series except their outfit changes since this is a reimagining.

Team C.A.R.M.E.N have different roles from my last rewrite so expect more meat into my lore.

Roman will have a big role in relation to team C.A.R.M.E.N (this sounds bizarre when I explain who Roman actually is). However, each villian will be explored in team C.A.R.M.E.N just like Roman so that there is no confusion.

Chase Devineaux has more lore about him as well as Julia Argent's role in my pilot and moving forward into the story.

Malestrom is the only name unchanged. Eartha Brute and Sara Bellum will have different names accurate to their origin country they came from.

Expect older V.I.L.E villains to be present working as A.C.M.E as double agents (mostly background characters or people appearing in a list in an A.C.M.E dossier) since I said in my Point NEMO post that V.I.L.E is an ideology.

About the Two Organizations

No, A.C.M.E does not stand for "Agency to Classify and Monitor Evildoers" and V.I.L.E does not stand for "Valuable Import, Lavish Exports" nor does it stand for "Villain's International League of Evil".

A.C.M.E and V.I.L.E will stand for the two different ideologies they inhabit in my AU. Basically, A.C.M.E stands for the "End of History" think of them like the TVA trying to preserve the loop of 1985-1994 an alternate reimagining of the Cold War by trying to maintain different fictional systems of lore merged into historical events. This is the government agency responsible for a majority of bad things but disguises itself as a type of diplomacy under the N.E.M.O treaty which allows diplomatic immunity as long as long-standing wars don't happen. -> A.C.M.E agents (nor Chase or Julia) know that they are working under a 1921 treaty that enforces the longest game of cops vs. robbers.

V.I.L.E represents a different part of the ideology where they use conflict and violence as a form of diplomatic immunity similar to A.C.M.E where they commit war crimes to get chased by A.C.M.E. Of course, team C.A.R.M.E.N doesn't know they are working under a treaty. The villains think they have a lasting impact on their country or history.

Roman getting suspicious about why he can't influence his crime organization beyond Yokohama is one of the reasons he joins V.I.L.E although he doesn't know about the treaty either.

Other Technical Details

The two forms of gameplay being the document checklist Carmen has to do in her old 80s/90s computer and the two trials in A.C.M.E (trial in A.C.M.E "court session" meant to deploy A.C.M.E field agents via historical testing and literacy skills not for actual court hearings) are NOT the only form of gameplay.

The riddle trinkets and the team C.A.R.M.E.N logos will still be present in crime scenes being brought to a class trial investigation (think of the riddle trinkets in WOEICS series of Ivy and Zach Carmen always drops).

I will probably do a poll on who the C.H.I.E.F will be since I am undecided?

The robot or Carmen's assistant in WOEICS has a big role so he gets to stay but since he is called C.H.I.E.F in the WOEICS series I have no idea what to call him. I was thinking that the Player=C.H.I.E.F since the Player can communicate to Carmen when the robot is offline but honestly idk.

-> Please note: Zack and Ivy only see the robot and call it C.H.I.E.F (b/c the C.H.I.E.F is communicating inside the robot’s tv screen it’s weird I might change later) so the two siblings don’t know that the C.H.I.E.F. is the Player.

Suhara Nakamura/Shadow-san

The only big thing I will borrow from CS19 as inspiration is how Shadow-san is handled in the CS19 lore. This doesn't mean saying he was once a part of V.I.L.E. No, I did say he was part of the Yakuza in Japan before he eventually deflected to become an A.C.M.E agent.

He eventually mentored young 17-yr-old Carmen Sandiego and even before 1985 he still mentored Carmen back in the old San Francisco A.C.M.E detective agency when he used to visit her.

I don't know his age during that time but he's probably pretty old to the point of wrinkles (late 50-60s?).

I will also probably make a separate Tumblr blog dedicated to my lore lol so expect to see some lore organized on that account.

I haven't seen any content from WOEICS only CS19 which is a shame b/c I think there is some good lore to make further interpretation beyond the source material.

Here is an old WOEICS cell from the show:

I did make the magnifying glass smaller than the original WOEICS version online, but you can see that the continents are lopsided. What I'm trying to say is that the CS19 A.C.M.E logo is trash literally just an atom on top of a font in a circle like bruh.

In the Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? episode "Hot Ice" (Season 2), Carmen Sandiego breaks into ACME headquarters, noting she has been gone for 10 years, 3 months, and 7 days. She steals coal from Kentucky and creates a massive diamond in a Bali volcano, with ACME detectives Zack and Ivy pursuing her. Carmen uses her old keycard to bypass ACME security, announcing her return to the Chief after her 10-year, 3-month, 7-day absence.

I honestly don't know why more fanfic has been made out of this fact. I implore CS19 fans that they take a look at this detail, a lot of the WOEICS lore has not been explored so we don't get questions that ask:

What has Carmen been doing those 10 years, 3 months, and 7 days?

What did she do beyond building v.i.l.e that took that long, did she have an ulterior motive?

What is her past as a detective in a.c.m.e?

It is very clear that in the show Zack and Ivy are working in a larger-than-life law enforcement agency that in the source material by Sienkiewicz looked like something dystopian from 1984 which was a big inspiration. Keep in mind, WOEICS came out before The Matrix so the Player helping defeat a simulation to capture Carmen was something I had personally never seen before even though it wasn't all that surprising in the Fox Kids era in the 90s.

Yes, I know that the C.H.I.E.F in the WOEICS series is based off of Max Headroom not the movie.

"The Chief is a computer AI depicted as a floating head. Instead of being the actual head of the A.C.M.E Detective Agency, the Chief was more of a supervisor/informant character designed to assist A.C.M.E  Agents on their cases, deliver their instructions, and act essentially as their manager. Despite being little more than a computer program, the Chief had a humanlike, albeit eccentric, personality: inspired by Matt Frewer's character from "Max Headroom," this Chief was a fast-talking, energetic, cartoonish with a wild and zany sense of humor."